Scion of an ancient and venerable family, young Christopher T. Mountjoy discovers at a tender age that he is so endowed as to make him the envy of lesser mortals, and irresistible to women (and some men!). Except , life being what it is, the woman of his dreams….

          But as his confessions show, Christopher is also disaster-prone, a walking calamity. His shambolic path through Eton and Oxford, studde with amorous encounters of epic and sometimes catastrophic proportions, is the wildly funny progress of a very incompetent rake.